A powerful metaphor for parents, spouses, and those supporting a person with ADHD A young boy’s mother yelled at her ADHD son no matter what he did, and she demeaned him at every turn. Understanding that this mother had fallen into a terrible pattern of verbal abuse — even though she knew it wasn’t working, […]

Can you believe it’s Labor Day already? It’s time to gather the fruits of our summer labor. To me, that means pausing to acknowledge accomplishments, celebrate milestones, etc., and feel grateful. Accomplishments? Yes, if you’ve been alive and functioning on this planet for these past summer months, you have accomplishments. Even if one is a […]

One of the striking things I find about inattentive clients (and myself) is that they don’t think to identify goals with specificity. I may think that I want something to happen, but it doesn’t occur to me to decide when I want it, how badly I want it, and what I can do to assure […]

I’ve been having a conversation with my coaching students and colleagues about the intensity ADDers experience and the spectrum of that intensity from individual to individual. I’ve long said that ADDers experience life more intensely than the general population, but I’m still just realizing the extent of the variability of intensity from person to person. […]